Author: Racheal Fest
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POD Conference 2024
Staff and faculty from SUNY Oneonta’s Faculty Center for Teaching, Learning & Scholarship gathered with other educational developers in Chicago this November to share some of our on-campus programs and to learn about new directions and best practices for supporting university faculty and staff in teaching, learning, and more. Ed Beck and Racheal Fest hosted…
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Fall Faculty Institute 2024
The Faculty Center hosted our eighth Fall Faculty Institute in October. This year, we focused on experiential learning, inviting faculty and staff from across campus to share with us how they help students learn by doing. Presenters talked about the many ways we build learning experiences into courses and co-curricular opportunities, from bringing students to…
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Crafting Podcast Assignments
This month, the Faculty Center hosted a roundtable conversation focused on assigning podcasting to students in a range of courses. Faculty from Communications, Education, and more shared assignments they’ve developed for major and gen ed contexts across the lower and upper divisions. While some assignments, such as those for a Digital Storytelling course, helped students…
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SUNY Oneonta Presentations and Award at CIT 2024
Each year, the SUNY Faculty Advisory Council on Teaching and Technology (FACT2) convenes the Conference on Instruction and Technology, bringing together faculty, librarians, educational developers, IT staff, and others from across the SUNY system to share strategies and approaches. CIT 2024, held in May at the University of Buffalo, focused on Creating Inclusive Innovation in…
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Faculty Share Published and In-Progress Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SoTL)
On April 24, faculty from a range of disciplines gathered to talk about their experiences writing and publishing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). In general, SoTL shares research-based investigations of student learning in discipline-specific and interdisciplinary venues. For this session, Jacqueline Bennett (Chemistry & Biochemistry), Barbara Durkin (Business), Katherine Griffes (Sport and Exercise…
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Faculty Q&A with the Office of Community Standards
This month, Jennifer Westmoreland, Associate Director of the Office of Community Standards, joined the Faculty Center for a conversation about academic integrity, AI, mental health, and other issues on our campus. Jennifer shared how her office responds when faculty submit the various forms her office administers, including the Instructor Report on Academic Dishonesty and the…
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Make It Stick: A Professional Learning Community
In February and March, the Faculty Center is hosting a professional learning community devoted to Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning (Belknap Press, Harvard, 2014). The book makes the cognitive science of learning accessible to readers of all disciplines. It explodes some popular assumptions about how we learn best—by cramming for a test…
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Getting Students Talking in Your Classroom
In January, the Faculty Center offers workshops to support teaching faculty as the new semester begins. This month, we hosted sessions on Brightspace, AI course policies, future-focused course planning, and more. One of our most popular sessions gathered faculty to share strategies for encouraging discussion in the classroom. Faced with ongoing pandemic conditions, faculty at…
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Resources from the POD Network Conference, 2023
Last month, a small group of faculty and staff from the Faculty Center for Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship attended the 48th Annual POD Network Conference in Pittsburgh, PA. The conference brings together educational developers to share strategies and approaches to supporting faculty and staff in higher education. This year, the conference theme was Envisioning the…
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Engaging with AI Tools in Your Course
The Teaching, Learning & Technology Center organized a series of sessions devoted to AI tools this spring. Students across higher ed increasingly report using ChatGPT and DALL-E to generate text and images in response to prompts. Faculty can access these tools at OpenAI. At “Engaging with AI Tools in Your Course,” Chilton Reynolds and I…
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